Now you're getting into philosophy. As a materialist, I do believe everything comes from the natural world. I take the view that if every time we combined two o

Now you're getting into philosophy. As a materialist, I do believe everything comes from the natural world. I take the view that if every time we combined two objects with two other objects we ended up with something other than four objects, we would not be saying "2+2=4". There are of course other viewpoints that math has a Platonic metaphysical reality in and of itself, independent of the natural world.